Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Hansard source

I withdraw, Mr Speaker. We have moralising people like the member for Batman and the former member for Longman, Susan Lamb, up there telling us that they want to implement a humane policy. Where were they when 1,200 people drowned at sea?

It's this government that's taken people off Manus and Nauru. The Labor Party put people on Manus and Nauru. We aren't going to take a morals lecture from this person opposite. We aren't going to take a morals lecture from this Leader of the Opposition. He has a track record of duplicitous behaviour, whether it's in the union movement, where he ripped off workers, or it's in his professional life otherwise, where he's doublecrossed every person he's ever come across. He's now trying to fool the people in Longman, the people in Braddon, the people in Mayo and the Australian public otherwise that somehow he's going to stitch together a policy that stares down these moralising members of the Labor Party who pretend that they've got a humane policy, when all they will promise is to get through the next election and then undo the work that we've done to stop the boats.

What will happen again on their watch is that women and children will again drown. We will have children—8,000 under Labor went into detention. We closed 17 detention centres. We got those 8,000 kids out of detention. And this Leader of the Opposition is, frankly, the most sanctimonious person to occupy that seat.

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